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City of Gods and Monsters by Kayla Edwards

6 reviews

emilythestrang3's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book....I was hooked from the first sentence, and devoured it in 2 days. I cannot wait to continue this series. I picked it up because a lady i follow on tiktok described it as an adult Mortal Instruments. It's similar in the fact that it has all the monsters (werewolves, vampirea, demons), and people that hunt them, a.k.a. Darkslayers. But that'  where the similarities stop i think.  The world building was so good and thorough, the characters are all amazing, and it has a slow burn romance that I just ate up. Oh...did I mention the shadowdaddy 😉 and spirit familiars!
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hapalyn's review against another edition

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adventurous funny mysterious slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book is LONG, slow, and sometimes redundant.

I wish I read Crescent City after this, because I think it is really evident (if you’ve read both) that CC has worse worldbuilding, and it was unfair to colpare this book to that. I do love an urban fantasy, so this was fun.

Really long, sometimes slow, I would recommend this to people who can enjoy that the way that I can.
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elntastic's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

I could not put this book down! I loved the world building and the story line. But most of all I loved Darien and his character development. 
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His growing love for Loren is written like a dream. The only things I didn’t like were that the main focus was on the romantic relationship and not as much on the plot. I also found it hard to believe how quickly Loren healed in the end even though she was covered in bruises and scrapes and almost drowned…I also didn’t understand why the Widow said that she would die if she used her power but then ends up being absolutely fine after having used it. 
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freckles_13's review against another edition

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dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This book could’ve been so perfect but sadly it wasn’t.

I got to about 60% before I had to start skim reading it, and went back to actually reading it at around 75% because it just made the book drag on so much, it physically hurt. There were scenes that just felt pointless or just dragged on for no apparent reason, and I feel like this book would’ve been so much better if it was around 500 pages rather than 700+. Also, there were so many side people that it was so hard to remember who was who and what they did. 

On the good side, I did like most of the characters; Max and Jack are the best devils, you can’t convince me otherwise. The reason I kept reading because I enjoyed the dynamics between the devils and how they all look out for each other. However, Dallas was as important as a chocolate teapot in the end, despite her and Loren being “sisters”, whilst Sabine became and after thought and even when they found her, she pretty much disappeared into thin air. Yes, Loren did get annoying in some parts of the book but she’s an emotionally driven person who’s highly vulnerable in a world of immortals, so I could brush over that. 
The pining was good though, I’ll give the book that - it’s definitely a slow burn. 

Overall, I did like the whole concept and ideas of this book but I feel like this definitely could’ve been shorter. 
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dkgreads's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

Um, WOW! This was so, SO GOOD!!! I sincerely hope the author continues this series because I am 100% INVESTED. With unique world building and nonstop action, this book was seriously hard to put down! I even cried, TWICE (why you gotta do Singer like that, huh?)! And the final conflict was so TENSE and HEARTBREAKING I could hardly breathe while reading it. The only reasons this isn’t a 5 star book is because Loren did a couple of annoyingly stupid things that got on my nerves and because the epilogue left me with BIG questions. 
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urreadtome's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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